How many credit cards have you had over your entire lifetime?

Many,

When organized, it fills a large zip loc bag,


Weight,

I'm more of a collector than a churner.

batcave wrote: ↑ Many,

When organized, it fills a large zip loc bag,

I'm more of a collector than a churner.

wow can you put a number? hundreds?

15

garmium wrote: ↑ wow can you put a number? hundreds?

I can't really put a number on it as I got some cards only for the design and never used them. But likely in the hundreds. It also depends how you quantify that. I've have the CIBC Aeroplan/Aerogold and RBC Avion cards multiple times over the last 30 years. That could be two or thirty cards depending on how you count.

I think Mikka has them all, maybe they will chime in tia

rychicken wrote: ↑ I think Mikka has them all, maybe they will chime in tia

Tagging @mikka2017

The Earth thanks you for all your plastic.

batcave wrote: ↑ Many,
I'm more of a collector than a churner.

That poor Lowe's card op top is still with sticker

I would have never expected that it's so many, wow!
I would guess that's around 60?

batcave wrote: ↑ I can't really put a number on it as I got some cards only for the design and never used them. But likely in the hundreds. It also depends how you quantify that. I've have the CIBC Aeroplan/Aerogold and RBC Avion cards multiple times over the last 30 years. That could be two or thirty cards depending on how you count.

I would count each application as 1 but I would not count it if a card is expired/lost/stolen and they simply sent you a new one.

If you applied to 5 Amex Gold, then that counts as 5x

dimon222 wrote: ↑ That poor Lowe's card op top is still with sticker

I would have never expected that it's so many, wow!
I would guess that's around 60?

I use the Lowe's card to get a discount when I bought a kitchen sink. I only used that account once.

I think I got 60 new cards in the last five years.

garmium wrote: ↑ I am curious of the heavy churners here, how many cc's have you possessed over your entire life?

How many cards (which might count each renewal separately), or how many card accounts (in which case an account that got PSed a bunch of times over 20 years counts as one)?

VivienM wrote: ↑ How many cards (which might count each renewal separately), or how many card accounts (in which case an account that got PSed a bunch of times over 20 years counts as one)?

I guess I mean card accounts from a rewards churning perspective.

If you own a single card for 30 years renewed for 7x, that still counts as 1

If you own a card, switch into another product and claim the rewards, then that counts as 2

19 total
13 of these 19 are still open
3 of these 13 won't last beyond a year (FYF)

643

I got my first credit card in 1994 and have opened 28 more trade lines since then, 20 of those since 2016. Some of those individual lines represent multiple card products, like my Amex SC, which was opened in 1999 as an Air Miles card. Or my HSBC card, which was opened as a WE, downgraded to Advance, and upped to WE again. So it’s kind of hard to count.

I'd rather have one good card then churning through one-time bonuses and FYF's, honestly.
It's cool, but gets exhausting and is annoying.

About 30 total.

Since I started churning, 45. I had about 5 before that. Total 50. Not bad.

garmium wrote: ↑ wow can you put a number? hundreds?

I pulled out a few credit cards and weighed them.
The average weight of a credit card is 5 grams.
So not factoring in the weight of the bag, math says that 1936/5 = 387 cards in that bag.
Question is, how many are renewals, and or loyalty cards